recovery_mode

--recovery_mode={auto|incremental_with_snapshot|incremental|full}

Specifies the method of a disk or volume recovery to a physical or virtual machine.

Available values of the parameter are as follows:

• auto (by default)

  If you recover to the original virtual machine, the software will select the incremental mode. Otherwise, the full mode will be applied.

• incremental_with_snapshot

  This value is effective only when recovering to virtual machines. This mode is the fastest.

  When recovering to a VMware virtual machine: The software will use virtual machine snapshots and Changed Block Tracking (CBT) to determine which blocks have changed and to recover only these blocks. However, after the recovery a snapshot is kept.

  When recovering to a Hyper-V virtual machine: The software will use Changed Block Tracking (CBT) to determine which blocks have changed and to recover only these blocks.

• incremental

  The software will calculate hashes of disk blocks to recover only the changed blocks.

  When recovering to physical machines, this mode is recommended only if the backup is stored in Acronis Cloud Storage.

• full

  The software will recover all disk blocks, both changed and unchanged.